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About Gennady
Gennady Sheyner has been covering Palo Alto since 2008. His beats include City Hall, with a special focus on housing, utilities and transportation. He also covers regional politics for the Palo Alto Weekly, Palo Alto Online and its sister publications. He has won awards for his coverage of elections, land use, business, technology and breaking news.A native of Ukraine, Gennady grew up in San Francisco and graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a bachelor’s degree in English and from Columbia University with a master’s degree in journalism. Prior to joining Embarcadero Media, he spent three years covering breaking news and local politics for The Waterbury Republican-American, a daily newspaper in Connecticut. He is a massive fan of English football, marathons and churros.
Stories by Gennady
Palo Alto, Mountain View back new JPA to advocate for Santa Clara County cities
Setting aside concerns from city staff, the Palo Alto City Council officially endorsed on Monday an effort to create a new Joint Powers Authority that would advocate on behalf of all Santa Clara County cities and towns.[Wednesday, October 25, 2023]
In another blow to Palo Alto's California Avenue, Country Sun to shut down by end of the year
Country Sun, a supermarket that focuses on organic food and that for decades has been one of California Avenue's most visible and emblematic retailers, will shut down before Christmas, the company’s CEO told this publication.[Tuesday, October 24, 2023]
After pandemic backslide, Stanford hospitals ordered to ramp up commute programs
Stanford's hospitals will avoid financial penalties despite failing to meet their legally binding transportation goals. They will, however, have to speed up efforts to get employees out of cars, Palo Alto officials agreed Monday.[Tuesday, October 24, 2023]
Stanford hospitals struggle to keep employees from driving to work
When Stanford University received permission in 2011 to construct new hospitals and medical buildings, it pledged to steer its workers away from cars and toward buses, trains and shuttles. The pandemic has disrupted these plans.[Thursday, October 19, 2023]
Police: Stanford shooting suspect nabbed at Trader Joe's in Town & Country
Palo Alto police swarmed Town & Country Village on Tuesday, Oct. 17, and detained a man who walked into the Trader Joe's with a gun and who officers believe shot a woman in the leg at the Stanford University campus earlier that day.[Thursday, October 19, 2023]
County adopts plan to steer housing toward Stanford campus
After decades of building and buying housing in surrounding cities, Stanford University will now have to look to own campus for future residential growth under a plan that Santa Clara County supervisors approved Tuesday afternoon.[Wednesday, October 18, 2023]
Zone changes aim to meet housing surge in south Palo Alto
Palo Alto's plans to create a new housing hub on a stretch of El Camino Real received rave reviews this week from area developers, though some planning commissioners raised concerns about community impacts.[Friday, October 13, 2023]
Berman's election bills advance with governor's signature
On Oct. 10 Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of election bills authored by Assembly member Marc Berman, including legislation that aims to improve ballot design and explicitly bans "double voting" in different states.[Thursday, October 12, 2023]
'Surreal and horrific.' Thousands gather in Palo Alto to support Israel after Hamas attacks
In a broad show of solidarity with Israel, about 2,000 residents and more than a dozen religious leaders came to Palo Alto on Tuesday to light candles, sing and pray for the civilians who were killed, wounded or abducted by Hamas.[Wednesday, October 11, 2023]
A 'company town'? Stanford housing plan raises concerns in Palo Alto
As Santa Clara County prepares to approve new policies for Stanford University's growth, Palo Alto and the university are at loggerheads over a key question: Can the university's campus accommodate most of its future housing needs?[Tuesday, October 10, 2023]